Responsibilities of the Practicum Director
- Act as a liaison in acquainting the mentoring library media specialist and other personnel with the nature and purpose of the practicum experience.
- Assist with the identification of prospective mentoring library media specialists and the assignment of practicum students.
- Provide pertinent materials to practicum students, mentoring library media specialists, and school principals.
- Provide practicum students with information regarding course objectives, requirements, activities to be evaluated, grading practices and policies.
- Receive from and discuss with the student the practicum plan.
- Confer with the mentoring library media specialist regularly to discuss the needs of the practicum student.
- Assisting the supervising library media specialist with the evaluation process, especially in the area of reflective self-evaluation.
- Evaluate the total environment where the practicum student is placed.
- Give constructive feedback to the practicum student via email
- Assist with any problem situations encountered during the practicum.
- Oversee preparation of the final evaluation and determine the final grade after consulting with the supervising library media specialist.